- Amir Tabakovic – Strategist, Innovator, Investor in ML Technology
Artificial Intelligence for Managers: 3rd – 4th November 2022
What to expect
- Introduction to Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML)
- Data driven organisation and democratisation of AI/ML
- ML problem framing and ML Canvas
- Practical examples of Supervised and Unsupervised ML problems
- Practical exercises: Pricing, Shopping Basket Analysis, Sentiment Analysis…
- AI/ML and Regulations; Consequences of GDPR on AI/ML; Data Privacy and AI
Short course description
This course offers a practical introduction to Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML) for non-technical business leaders. It helps business domain experts better assess the potential of AI/ML for their businesses, avoid common pitfalls when implementing AI/ML in their organisations and initiate and execute successful data driven projects.
Artificial Intelligence for Managers
- Dr. Pascal Rey, attorney at law – University of Fribourg
- Dr. Wolfgang Straub, attorney at law, LL.M – Krneta Advokatur Notariat / University of Bern
- Thierry Fasnacht, attorney at law – Krneta Advokatur Notariat
Selected Legal Issues: 10th – 11th November 2022
What to expect
- General principles of contract law regarding sales, agency, work and services
- General rules of conclusion, interpretation and amendment of contracts
- Legal Engineering: a methodology for designing and drafting contracts
- Typology of IT contracts (traditional and agile projects, IT services, Cloud services)
- Breach of contract and methods of securing performance
- Importance of client’s cooperation and rules relevant thereto
Short course description
The iimt course Selected Legal Issues offers a general introduction to Swiss contract law with a key focus on IT projects and services. This course will provide you with a basic understanding of the legal concepts governing your contractual relationships as well as with a proven methodology to develop contracts suitable for your particular business needs.
Competition: 15th – 16th November 2022
What to expect
- Economic fundamentals of competition
- Firms behaviors fundamentals affecting competition
- Competition fundamentals in the digital economy
Short course description
The course on Competition highlights the main economics basis of competition behaviors and developments with a strong emphasis on the Digital Economy features such as for example the price setting algorithms or the impact of the sharing economy on the markets (Uber, Airbnb, etc.). The course scrutinizes the competition patterns in digital markets as well as the competition patterns in digital networks and platforms.
Competitiveness: 17th – 18th November 2022
What to expect
- Overall Framework
- Drivers Firms’ Competitiveness
- Business Environment Impacting Firms’ Competitiveness
Short course description
The course on Competitiveness – organized in collaboration with the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness led by Michael Porter (Harvard Business School) – focuses on the main drivers of competitiveness and how to strengthen the competitiveness of a company. New developments of firms strategies such as created shared value strategies are presented. This course covers inter alia the role of clusters, the impact of the Smart Connected Products and of the so-called “Augmented Reality Technologies” on firms’ competitiveness and the new business opportunities offered by the Smart Cities based on digital technologies. Participants will be registered on the Harvard Business School platform, which will provide them with all course materials. All course materials will have to be downloaded from the platform and students’ work will be uploaded to this platform which will also provide them with Michael Porter’s videos as part of the course.
- Sarianna Benain – Société Internationale de Télécommunications Aéronautiques (SITA)
- Dr. Jean Binder – Book author and Head of the Life Sciences PMO, Philip Morris International
Agility in Project Management: 22nd – 25th November 2022
What to expect
- Online and virtual project collaboration – in every course module you will have the opportunity to learn and practice remote tools and techniques that can boost your online meetings and increase your home-office productivity
- Initiate – Get your project started and define your approach (traditional, agile or hybrid)
- Plan – Define your requirements, scope and prepare a backlog or schedule
- Monitor – Establish metrics and use them to monitor the progress of your project
- Communicate – Understand communication challenges and agile techniques across country borders
- Organize – Select the best resources in the right locations to work in agile and self-organizing teams
- Collaborate – Establish trust and collaboration to benefit from multicultural teams
Short course description
In a very interactive course that can be directly applied at your company during an agile transformation or definition of a new project management method, we will discuss the challenges and benefits of Global Projects and Agile Approaches. You will get a practical insight into the latest trends in research and practice of project management and assess which principles can be applied in their companies to stay ahead in today’s competitive and global economy.
Strategic Management 1: 10th – 11th January 2023
What to expect
- Introduction to the concept of strategy
- The tools of strategic analysis, market based and resource based
- The nature and sources of competitive advantages
- Performance indicators
- Strategic resources and capabilities
Short course description
This course highlights the importance of corporate strategies and provides you with a toolbox for a successful and sustainable strategy implementation in a competitive environment.
Strategic Management 2: 12th – 13th January 2023
What to expect
- Achieving a competitive advantage in different industry contexts
- Blue-ocean strategy
- Knowledge creation and knowledge management
- Management in a VUCA-world and dynamic capabilities
Short course description
This course highlights the importance of corporate strategies and provides you with a toolbox for a successful and sustainable strategy implementation in a competitive environment.
Marketing Strategies: 17th – 18th January 2023
What to expect
- Marketing and markets
- Marketing research
- Marketing objectives
- Marketing strategies
– Customer oriented strategies
– Competition oriented strategies
– Cooperation and concentration strategies
Short course description
This course highlights the main marketing strategies and tools and to combine the most recent theoretical know-how with field-tested solutions. The aim is to define the marketing objectives and develop suitable marketing strategies for success in a global environment.
Product Management: 19th – 20th January 2023
What to expect
- Traditional and innovative product management processes
- Lifecycle management process
- Finding and developing new product and service ideas
- Defining customer needs and value proposition
- User-Led-Innovation, integration of user and co-creation
- Iterative process to get a valid concept including prototyping
- Smart-up Lean Canvas
Short course description
Learn more about experiments and “Pretotypes” to achieve problem/solution-fit, product/ market-fit and be able to scale while reducing risk and increasing customer value. You will get a toolbox for successful business models.
Service Management: 24th – 25th January 2023
What to expect
- Service-oriented value creation for business
- Design of data-based services and service ecosystems
- Rapid service prototyping and testing
- Service processes and service blueprints
- Business models and value capture with smart services
- Product-service transformation in industrial environments (Industry 4.0)
Short course description
This course highlights the transformation in today’s companies towards smart services. Its aim is to provide you with tools, strategies and business models for a transformation to service-orientation.
- Dr. Anton Sentic, School of Engineering, ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences
- Prof. em. Dr. Stephanie Teufel, iimt, University of Fribourg
- Mr. Silvan Forster (Migros Aare)
- Mr. Christian Martin (Google Switzerland)
Managing Innovation: 26th – 27th January 2023
What to expect
- Main principles and methods of innovation management
- Innovation culture and its relationship to innovation strategy
- Role of the broader innovation landscape and macro-level transition factors
- Implementing an innovation strategy in your business model
Short course description
In this course you will explore concepts, strategies and tools for the management of innovation and innovative processes and the creation of new business models. The knowledge gathered in this course will enable you to develop and shape an innovation strategy, leveraging your company’s strengths in order to enhance innovativeness.